Kris is one of the classiest guys to have played for Syracuse. Hope he gets picked by the Raptors so he can be close to home. No matter what happens with Kris professionally in basketball, he is set since he can live off the royalties from the Scoop & Kris Show!

I agree completely. It was disturbing to see this article this morning. The P-S knows how overly critical its readership is and to have this type of grading of a young man who is an amateur athlete is wrong. The P-S should remove this article. If this was an article about a multi-million athlete that would be another thing. From what I have seen Baye hustles, has a great attitude and seems like a very nice young man. We never hear anything negative about Baye. So anything less than an A+ for Baye is incorrect. Baye thank you for your effortst at SU!!!!

Great article as always Donna!! Perfect interview with Cooney - glad to see Rak happy. It was painful to see him get those early hooks throughout the year. Seems like a really nice young man and it is refreshing to hear that he has not lost his confidence during a struggling freshman year. Folks said that Fab was the only irreplaceable Orange, but Rak & Baye are proving all of the doubters wrong.

A lot of us do single out Donna for praise about her excellent coverage and writing skills. As negative as Syracuse fans are about the team, certain players and Coach B - Donna is able to consistently receive positive comments from these same dour fans.

Now Donna, don't let all this praise get to your head and you go national and leave us behind :)

Kris has represented Syracuse with such class that his tremendous basketball contributions are a distant second. He has such a mature presence about him that one forgets that he is a young man in his early 20s. Montreal and Syracuse should be both proud and honored to call Mr. Joseph one of their own. With his work ethic and charisma, he will be a success at whatever he does after his NBA career is over.

Thank you Kris and good luck with the rest of this year and exciting years ahead for you!!!!

I've been watching Cuse hoops since the late 70s and Scoop is one of my all-time favorite Syracuse players. He is a great point guard, a leader and has represented Syracuse University with a lot of class.

The Big East Conference website has highlights of the game that includes the two questionable no-calls that went SU's way.

On the Fab put-back - live, it looked like an obvious interference - but if you click the replay frame-by-frame - a lot of the ball, if not all of it, was outside the cylinder. The call definitely could've gone either way.

On the Roscoe Smith drive - the angle of the replay is poor - so it is impossible to tell if he was really fouled or not - but it does seem like he did an exaggerated flop to the floor, which may have ultimately hurt his chances of getting the call if he was indeed fouled.

Based on the replays - the no-calls don't seem as bad as they did live - so I don't think this game needs an asterisk by it.

Orangegal is correct - I normally like to post positive posts because Orange fans tend to be so negative, but there is an obvious lack of effort and/or understanding of boxing out a defender. In this past game, one of the Hoyas went up for a basket from the left side and there was an Orange player on the right side of the basket in position for a potential rebound, but he did not spread his arms to prevent a Hoya from moving past him to get in a better position for the rebound. The zone can only be blamed for so much of the lack of production rebounding-wise, but as the Dennis Rodmans and Kevin Loves of the world demonstrate, it often comes down to desire and pride with respect to rebounding. OK.....back to the positive side.....even with our pathetic rebounding, we are still in first place in the Big East and have only one loss for the year!!! Now that takes overall pride and effort to achieve that!!!!

Donna, another fantastic article!! Great reporting on how Fab studied those Rick Jackson tapes. So many sports reporters take the same approach to each story...tired, worn out metaphors and cliches....but you always find these interesting and relevant details that are a pleasure to read about.

Donna has always been great about doing her best to uncover information for the public. And she has always come across as a classy professional, so I am sure she is trying to balance Fab's right to privacy with her determination to get the story out to us. Since covering Syracuse sports is Donna's job, I am sure she is just as interested as the rest of us to find out what is really going on with Fab. For "a while" actually tells us a lot. We were all hoping that the issue was going to be resolved expeditiously, with possibly an alleged "make up" test that one poster had "inside knowledge" about. If the problem was going to be resolved with something quick like that, we would not be hearing that it would take "a while". So my guess is that " a while" is actually not so good news.

8-1 through first nine BE games - will definitely take that!! Scoop had another efficient night - his assist/turnover ratio has been great lately. Would be great if he could lead the Cuse to 2 Big East Regular Season Championships while he is here. I think a Regular Season BE Championship is a bigger accomplishment than getting to the Final Four.